Ron Artest Challenges Michael Jordan in Brilliant Plan to End NBA Lockout

Ron Artest, known now as Metta World Peace, is not nuts. He is simply a mad genius, and rather hilarious as well. 

What we have here is thinking taking place nowhere near the box. With no hope in sight regarding the NBA lockout, it's time to get creative, and that's where my favorite NBA baller comes in. 

Metta World Peace took to Twitter to offer a challenge to one of the greatest hoopsters to ever lace up sneakers. Here is the tweet heard round the world. 

There you have a current NBA superstar asking for a one-on-one with the Jumpman himself. This is the point that we break down what would happen if the two met on the court. But before, a little more smack talk from the king of such things. 

Here is this gem of a tweet. 

So what we got here is an ultimatum that Jordan can hardly pass up on. How can the greatest of all time back own when Peace makes war? You have the delicious Cheetos to consider and the fact that Peace spelled Michael incorrectly. 

Dude is just piling on the insults. Now comes the hard part, Peace would lose. I am going to go with the assumption that the game goes to 21, with the obvious note that you need to win by two. 

This may not be Air Jordan, and it would be evident when his creaky knees fail to captures a 40-inch vertical. But I would bet my Xbox 360 collection that he can still shoot the lights out of the building, though. 

The man loves to workout with the teams and would be able to hit at least a jumper from the outside to take this one for the owners. 

Now are we playing "winner takes ball?" If so, I would put more confidence in Peace getting to at least 15 before his tight shorts get the best of him and he dribbles the ball off his tiny little shoes. 

As a Lakers fan, I have seen this before and would guarantee this would go down at least once. However, this is the only way this lockout ends. 

Expecting the players and owners to work it out...now that's ridiculous.